Allerdale Community Mental Health Team

Well I got to the clinic already in panic mode and full of anxiety. When I had my appointment the clinician made some remarks that made it sound like she didn't care. Sarah I think her name was. Like I mentioned I got out of having to do something with a letter from my GP because my mental state is that bad I just couldn't do it. And she said I wouldn't have got that with her. She doesn't write letters like that for people. People need to do what's asked of them regardless of their situation. Instantly she was letting me know what kind of person she was. Well throughout the whole assessment I was shaking and crying. And I had to wait near on 2 hours for the patient transport to pick me up and bring me home. After I left the clinicians office though I went into full blown panic attack. The clinician that did my assessment and another one both had to help bring me down. They managed to bring me down a little after 10-15 minutes but I was still in a panic attack state when I left 2 hours later. I was just a tiny bit calmer with a lot of support round me. That panic attack lasted even through the journey home and well into my time back at home. Well I received a letter after my assessment saying they don't think I need there help and they just fobbed me off completely. I went back to my GP and asked to be referred again and told him I am not happy. The same dodgy clinician called me back. And said well I don't think you need our help. You seemed to get over that panic attack really easy. That panic lasted my whole time there and for a long time after I left there. Got over it a bit quick?? What's she even on about. I'm here crying most days, depression isn't even the word for it. My anxiety is always through the roof. I can get multiple full blown panic attacks a day. And I don't need mental health help?? I don't understand. I think I probably just got the worst clinician in the facility and extreme bad luck because if I don't need mental health help no one in this whole world does. It's not even depression, anxiety and panic attacks. I have crippling insomnia. I find it hard to leave the house. I even find it hard to write/type things like I am now. It's took me about an hour to write all this trying to make it sound right because my mental health issues also caused learning difficulties. Going from what happened that day at my assessment they would probably say there is nothing wrong with Hannibal Lecter and send him home again. Atrocious. I am in dire need of help and am being refused any because I supposedly got over my panic attack easy. The panic attack that was brewing before I even got there and lasted for hours after I got home which she wouldn't even have known?? Is she making assumptions now as well or she just psychic. Either way about 4-5 hours of pure panic over basically nothing and shaking none stop and crying doesn't mean anything to this clinician. It tells them I'm fine and don't need support

Absolutely disgusting service, no help whatsoever and nothing but lies in my medical records. They should all be sacked.

What a joke.30 yrs in the system, weekly appointments, and apparently the whole country has been told there’s no more help. Unless you can refer yourself to a psychiatrist and survive for a year to wait for an assessment. I can only thank the person who has kept me as well as humanly possible for the past 3 yrs.coming from myself and my family.Before I leave mark my words it’s not difficult to find out if the whole country has really been told that.We’ll all die shortly in that case.